Load an external text/html file using ActionScript 3, take 2 – Class is in

I have received many responses to my original post to the ActionScript 3 code for loading external text or HTML, and a user encountered a situation loading the data across scenes. So I thought I would go back and revisit the code, this time making it modular with a class. Here is the link to

Tutorial – Countdown timer example class in ActionScript 3

I have uploaded a new set of sample files and example code for a more elaborate timer class that will countdown from a specified number of minutes or seconds and display the current count in a text field. The class file and code is in ActionScript 3, rather than repost the code visit the post

Tutorial – Save data locally using ActionScript 3 SharedObject

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Tutorial – Simple gravity animation with ActionScript 3

I was playing around with some movement code and thought I would share this simple example of simulating very basic gravity with ActionScript animation. The example below moves a movieclip on the stage with the instance name of ‘mClip’ towards the bottom of the stage. The function ‘blockMovement’ is called when the main timeline enters

Flash based Blog viewer updated

I updated today my Flash based viewer for this wordpress RSS feed on my evolutiondata.com web site. The primary updates are a cleaner improved interface. And notably there is no previous post selection at this time, only the current post is displayed. I am working the code still for the updated archive viewer. I am

Flash navigation idea

Whilst working on a layout for my new (now not going to happen due to work load) Flash based web site I came up with an idea that I thought was kind of interesting for a simple and clean navigation layout. Below is a screenshot, but here is a link to the actual swf to

Validate Email address and Phone number using ActionScript

Great little snippet of code for validating an email address and a phone number using ActionScript. I love this little functions you can drop in code and just run with. A link to the post here. I have linked rather than replicate the code as I believe in crediting the original author.

Great article on how to find the length of an Object in Flex

A link to a great article on getting the length of an Object using ActionScript 3 by Andrei Ionescu, rather than repeating it I’ll just link to it. I find little code segments like this most useful to have laying around in your cone snippets for those times when you need something fast and simple.

Flash vs Flex AS3 and the nested MovieClip murders

        I am writing an application in Flash CS3 and I thought as a way to learn Flex I would also write the application in tandem in Flex Builder 3 Beta. Being that I’m an experienced AS2 coder I thought it would be interesting to really start getting dirty with AS3 in a big way and